#842: Oh, Worship the King

[lutheranhymns]

We get some proper noun fun with "Ancient of Days" and "Almighty," and some tortured word order with "The earth..., Almighty, your power has founded...and round it has cast, like a mantle, the sea." Some nice internal rhymes with "defender"/"splendor" and "hills"/"distills"--the latter, I think, trying to say something about how even the dew and rain are signs of God's care. If you look at them in the right perspective. Plus "hymn" as a verb. This is one of those old-timey 1800s texts that you can't blame on a translation, they were just really going over-the-top.